{"id":31855,"date":"2018-07-17T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T04:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=31855"},"modified":"2018-07-17T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T04:12:23","slug":"tv-floor-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tv-floor-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Floor Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago we ended up with a 26&#8243; flat screen TV from some giveaway deal. It&#8217;s no great thing but it doesn&#8217;t suck either, and we had no idea what to do with it. It was an off &#038; on puzzle for a while&#8230; All the flat screens these days have hardware in their backs for mounting. I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01CR4Y0XO\/cooltools-20\">simple stand on Amazon<\/a> ($57), added a Roku stick and a flat HD antenna to the TV and put the whole mess out on the patio. Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube &#038; Broadcast outside. Party, friends or just us, it&#8217;s a good addition. The mount is heavy enough that it&#8217;d be hard to blow it over (but not impossible, I guess). A thick contractor&#8217;s trash bag slips right over the whole thing to keep the weather off. We keep the remotes in a Ziploc on the table out there. Recently added is a Bluetooth transmitter so the TV&#8217;s speakers don&#8217;t irritate my noise-sensitive neighbors and a Bluetooth speaker sits near us. (This TV has two USB power sockets and the Roku, BT &#038; antenna each want a little bit of juice. A USB power splitter happily keeps all three going &#8211; YMMV. Just one AC power cord in use here.) A few weeks ago I made a pass through a bunch of local pawn shops and saw more than a few smaller TVs looking for a home. Found another Roku at one too. You can add a similar setup to your patio\/deck for a relatively small investment too. And it&#8217;s easy to put away at the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outdoor TV watching setup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[52,27],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31857,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions\/31857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}